Doesn't Go to Eleven

Defeat Forgemaster Garfrost in The Pit of Saron on Heroic Difficulty before any player gets 11 stacks of Permafrost.

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Comment by luee

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder? Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? Marty DiBergi: I don't know. Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.

Comment by Noam

If you didn't get Luee's quote, this is a reference to the movie "This is Spinal Tap!"

Comment by Icecoldcoke

This is done by standing behind a boulder to get out of LOS of Forgemaster Garfrost before your stacks of permafrost gets to 11, to be safe, you should LOS sometime before then.

The tank is able to LOS behind a boulder at 66 and 33% when Garfrost jumps over to a forge. So your group will need decent DPS in order to get this achievement.

Comment by darknesscalls

If you have a priest healer/DPSer, he can spam mass dispel on the party if they are grouped up since the debuff is dispellable. Not sure if that's intended, but that is how we got this achievement.

Comment by Kciroj

Got this through sheer luck with Frost Res Aura up. A full resist will prevent the debuff froms stacking further.

Edit: To whoever rated this down, I don't mean to say that you're guaranteed to get the achievement for having frost resistance. It may sometimes prevent one application of the debuff, causing it to fall off entirely... but you need to be lucky, or stack more frost res perhaps, to get the achievement with this alone. And if you find this incorrect, at least take the time to reply and report your findings.

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Comment by Aurakrys

It should be noted that the boulders are bugged and will not cause the line of sight, UNLESS you are standing at the green oozing stripe of the boulder. A friend and I tested this with him standing at the stripe, and me not (but still LoS behind the boulder). I would still get stacks.

Comment by Teradon

It seems like this achievement is a little buggy, cause pets count toward this even thought the achievement clearly says players, but that's how it works I guess.

Comment by Rahizzle

Straight Forward.My set up was:2 Tanks, 1 Healer, 2 DPS

Tanked him a few yards away from steps, we used the steps as LoS tanks took it in turn to remove debuffs.

Quite simple.

Comment by Shirash

It's possible to get rid of the debuff through using cooldowns. Hunters can hit Deterrance and lose their stacks, DKs can hit AMS and do the same (You won't actually 'lose' your stacks, but new ones won't be applied while the effects are up, thus the stacks will fall off). Paladin bubble and mage ice block will also remove all the stacks.

Handy to know if aiming for the achievement and you aren't paying as much attention to your positioning as you should be.

Comment by Toldry

Why top 11? Because I like to go one step beyond.

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Comment by ahf620

Paladins and Priests can actually dispell it, so if you have a priest in the group, all of you just stack on the tank and have him mass dispell and then just move away to avoid unnecessary boulder damage, or if you have a paladin you can have him dispell the tank and the rest of you , i can confirm that a paladin can dispell 1 debuff,not all of the stacks.

Comment by Alaylaria

Our group used the stairs to break LoS. The tank tanked him about halfway up, and our DPS was all ranged. We stoood near enough so all it would take was a quick step left to break LoS.

Comment by chimera

We just tried it with pala x 2, disc priest, mage and rogue. Noone went above 7 and we didn't get the achi :OCould it be that mirror images picked up 11+ stacks?Yes we were in heroic mode :)

FYI: using frost aura, the debuffs were stacking so slowly I could pretty well keep the pace dispelling them. Most of the time it was 0-4 stacks on all people.

Comment by Zellviren

I was thoroughly bemused after performing this perfectly (I watched it on Grid), only for the achievement not to flash up afterwards. As a result, I contacted a GM because it was, as far as I knew, clearly a bug. Naturally, the GM didn't award it but told me some interesting information.

Stick with the LoS on the rocks, or the stairs in a pinch. Yes, the offtank idea works as well. If you use Mass Dispel, it can break the achievement so you'll mess it up if you try to dispel it.

Additionally, pets can also count - and this includes things like Balance druid trees and even Shadowfiends. In other words, there are a myriad number of ways to mess it up with the achievement wording saying nothing about them whatsoever.

Very annoying.

Comment by Bellandra

We (disc priest and paladin tank) just got this achievement with a LFD pug. We had frost aura on, everyone except the tank was clearing their stacks and I was dispelling the debuff on the tank. We weren't trying to get the achi.. in fact, I was getting quite annoyed at my partner for not clearing his stacks.

So it seems to me that dispel will work sometimes, but I guess sometimes it will make it bug.

Comment by pezz

A holy paladin using Aura Mastery with Resistance Aura has a pretty high rate of success for forcing the debuff off. It's only going to work once per fight, though.

Comment by vanquished14

I got very frustrated with this achievement at 80. Seems at least one person would always get too many stacks. Went back at 85 (SV-Hunter, Turtle Pet, 2/2 Spirit Bond) and solo'ed this achievement very easily.

The stacks seem to automatically fall off turtle tank, not sure how but they do. The rocks always get thrown to you since you're only ranged so very easy to LoS. I didn't let stacks get above 6 just due to the dot damage. At one point I stayed LoS and was able to get a complete bandage off. Very easy achievement now. ^_^

Comment by qaccy

Shadow priests can also solo this now at 85.

First off, make sure you bring both Inner Fire and especially Dispel glyphs; you'll need the latter for healing as you remove the stacks.

As for the fight itself, I threw DoTs up on Garfrost to begin, then immediately threw out my fiend+fade to suck all the skeletons onto him. AoE them down (I used holy nova lolol), and from then on it's a matter of basically kiting the guy as best you can, keeping your DoTs up. Those and apparitions will be your primary sources of damage.

For healing, make sure to dispel your stacks to stay below 11. The glyph will heal you even if you have nothing to dispel, keep that in mind. I also took the time to hide behind a boulder and use a couple of gheals after he hopped over to the forge - don't underestimate the damage, even with only a couple stacks you'll be taking hits for 5-6k.

Anyway, it got really close at the end. I'd previously used dispersion and archangel both for mana purposes, and by the time he died I was still left with only about 5k mana (and about 15k HP). This will undoubtedly get easier with later gear; I was in mostly heroic 346s with a couple epics from rep. Good luck!

Comment by DNSStylewalker

Just soloed this one as 85 prot warrior, 166k life with commanding shout.

Engage Garfrost and just single target dps him down with Shield Slam, Rend and Heroic Strike. When you need heal kill one of his skeletons and heal through victory rush.

Always stay in move, I lost my stacks of Permafrost when it missed me: Permafrost Missed . (Missed)

Comment by Khazi

At 85, as long as you can solo the boss (he hit's rather hard and you have to move during the fight, because of the ice from the ground) you will get this achievement for free, as every third or fourth of his stacks will miss you.

Comment by Morbius

Soloed this as an 85 blood DK. Used prismatic elixir for resist buff as insurance, probably wasn't necessary as the stacks never got above 2. I wasn't getting hit that hard so I just ignored everything and DPSed the boss.

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Comment by Rubik13

just solo'ed as an arcane mage at 85, ilvl is 361

Comment by sylar1986

Just did this as a elemental shaman ilvl 373, opened with blood lust and popped both elementals, did aprox 14k dps the fight lasted around 40 seconds. The stacks didn't go over 8 before they fell off. Good luck to anyone trying to solo.

Comment by seahen

This achievement isn't loud enough.

Comment by Saurok

Quite easy to solo this achievement with even a lvl 80 mage, the permafrost doesn't even stack up because it is resisted.

Comment by Talimar

Soloed as a lock. I first tried voidwalker with Void Star Talisman equipped. But it wasn't enough to stop stacks on him.Ended up using felhunter+trinket and got it on first try. Highest he got was 4 stacks I believe.

Comment by ovinophile

Just completed this with my warlock in 5.0.4, now that resistance as a stat is gone. Still, I would resist one Permafrost every 5 or so, making the stacks fall off. Pretty easy, didn't do anything special other than burn the boss.

Comment by PanzersSkywall

90 Hunter Surv spec, 465 Item level.

Just pop all cooldowns and burn with DPS pet.

Comment by suffacate

Make sure your dungeon difficulty is set to heroic before entering. I kept killing him when I had under 11 stacks and never got the achieve.Then I noticed I had my dungeon difficulty on normal for some reason. Whoops ;P

Comment by hypertikki

Solo'd as 90 enhancement shaman, ilvl 492, popped all CD's and burned him. Down in four seconds, got the achieve. Easier than Haris Pilton